Switzerland

We just learned about the country of Vatican City.

Switzerland is another country in Europe!


(from: wikipedia - switzerland)

For breakfast in Switzerland you might have a bowl of meusli,
a cereal invented there with oats grains nuts and fruits.

(from: wikipedia - swiss cuisine)

There is a big invention called the large hadron collider that scientists built
in Switzerland to maybe help us understand how the universe works!

(from: wikipedia - large hadron collider)

In the old days people in the Swiss mountains used to use a big long horn
called the alphorn to talk to each other across the mountains.

(from: wikipedia - alphorn)

The mountain range running through Switzerland is called the Alps,
and in the alps is a famous mountain called the Matterhorn.

(from: wikipedia - matterhorn)



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Jesus as a young boy

We just learned a little about what happened After Jesus' Birth

The bible doesn't tell us about how Jesus grew up as a baby or a little kid,
but it does tell us about one time when he was twelve years old.

Jesus whole family and many friends traveled from Nazareth to Jerusalem for a big festival.
After the festival was over, everyone went back home, but Jesus was not with them.
His parents thought maybe he was lost in their crowd of family and friends,
because there were so many people it would be easy to get mixed up.

But Jesus had stayed in Jerusalem and was staying in the temple (which was like a church)
talking to the teachers and asking them questions.

All of the teachers were amazed at how much Jesus knew and understood!
They did not know he was the son of God!

When Jesus' parents found him, they asked why he didn't come home with them,
and he told them he was in his father's house.

They didn't understand at the time, but he meant that since he was the son of God
and he was in God's house, that being in the temple was being in his father's house.

(from: wikipedia - finding jesus in the temple)


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Planetary nebula

A planetary nebula is a bunch of burning glowing gas that was shot out from a red giant star at one point.


(from: wikipedia - planetary nebula)



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Spanish - How are you?

In Spanish, if you want to say How are you?
you say ¿Cómo estás? - sounds like coh-moh-ess-tah-s /?/

(from: wikipedia - Association of Spanish Language Academies)

Do you remember how to say it in French?
Comment allez-vous?

Pāhoehoe lava

We just learned that ʻAʻā lava is a type of lava with big chunks of rock floating in it.

Another type of lava is called Pāhoehoe, pronounced like pah-ho-ee ho-ee.

Pāhoehoe lava is smooth and looks almost like rope or some sort of gooey thick stuff.

(from: wikipedia - lava)


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Lobsters

We just learned about the type of animal the Echidna.

Let's learn about some more fun animals!

Lobsters are animals that live in the sea, that have something called an exoskeleton.

Our hard bones are on the inside of our body, but a lobster's hard bones
are like armor on the outside of it's body.

Lobsters live on the bottom of the ocean, usually hiding in cracks or holes in the ground.


(from: wikipedia - lobster)

Another funny thing about lobsters is that they have blue blood!

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Hypothenar

We just learned about the thenar muscle in the hand by the thumb.

The other big muscle in your hand that you can feel is called the hypothenar.
It's over on the side of your hand by your pinky, and it controls all the movement of your pinky finger.


(from: wikipedia - hypothenar)



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